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FOREST AND STREAM. 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 

 Un voted to Field and Aquatic Sports, Practical Natural History 

 Fish culture, the Protection op Game, Preservation of l< 

 and thb Inculcation in Men and Women ok a Healthy Interest 

 in Out-Door Recreation and Study : 



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CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COMING 

 WEEK. 



" Friday, Aug. IT.— Trotting : Lowell, Mass.; Warwick', N. Y.; Mcndota, 

 111. Running meeting at Saratoga. Baseball: Cincinnati vs Hartford, 

 at Brooklyn ; Louisville vs Boston, at Boston ; Monticello vs Noisy, at 

 Astoria, J,. I.; Ottumwa vs Remington, at Davenport, la.; Stowe vs 

 Haymaker, at New Haven, Con.; Arlington vs Alaska, at West Brigh- 

 ton, Home!) vsDansville, at Ilorncllsville, N. Y.; Columbia vs Active, 

 at Jersey City ; Indianapolis vs Allegheny, at Allegheny, Pa.; Rochester 

 vs Star of Syracuse, at Rochester. Regattas : Palisade Club ; North- 

 western Amateur Rowing Association, at Detroit, Mich. Creedmoor: 

 Infantry, 1st Brigade, 1st Division. Cricket: Ottawa vs Toronto, at 

 Ottawa, Pigeon match : Philadelphia and Narragansett Gun Clubs, at 

 Newport. 



.Saturday, Aug. IS.— Running meeting at Saratoga. Base ball: Cin- 

 cinnati vs Hartford, at Brooklyn; Louisville vs Boston, at Boston ; St. 

 Louis vs Chicago, at Chicago; Stowe vs Jefferson of Hartford, at 

 Meriden; Arlington vs Noisy, at Stapleton, S. L; Everett vs Seneca, at 

 Greenville ; Nameless VS Hudson, at Brooklyn ; Orange vs Chelsea, at 

 Orange, N. J.; Indianapolis vs Allegheny, as above. Creedmoor: 

 Fourth comp. for Parker Shot Gun; Seventh Regt. Rifle Club Comp. 

 for Sharp's Special Military Rifle. Cricket as above. Regattas : New 

 Eocholle Yacht Club ; Northwestern Ass. as above. 



Monday, A ug. 20.— Running meetingat Saratoga. Base ball : Roches- 

 ter vs Tecumsen, at Rochester. Creedmoor : Infantry ; 2d Brigade, 1st 

 Kivlsion. Athletic games of Philadelphia Caledonian Gun Club. 



3&e8da%, Aug. 21.— Trotting : Chatham Village, N. Y.; Earlville, 111.; 

 Poughkeepsie, N. Y; Pittsburgh, Pa. Running meeting at Saratoga. 

 Baseball: Cincinnati vs-Pogton, at Boston; Louisville vs Hartford, at 

 Brooklyn. Creedmoor ; Cavalry : Contest for the Washington Grey's 

 prize medal; coin].. torKentglass, Regatta of Beverly XachtCrab. 



Wednesday, At g as above ; also at Meadviue, Pa. Run- 



ning meeting at Sara ga. Creeflmoor: Practice. Union Regatta at 

 Cotuit Port, Mass. 



Thursday, Aug. 23.— Trotting as above. Running meeting at Sara- 

 toga. Base ball : Cincinnati vs Boston, at Boston ; Louisville vs Hart- 

 ford, at Brooklyn ; Uoeltesi.cr vs Star of Syracuse, at Rochester. Creed, 

 moor: Third Brigade, 1st Division. Regatta of Rockaway Yacht 

 Club. 



Bosaujjcs' Score Book. — This is a neat little work Of 

 eighty pages, of a size handy for tlie pocket, and is invaluable 

 to the trap shooter, whether amateur or professional ; it may 

 also be used as a score book for field sports. The fact that 

 Capt. A. II. Bogardus is the author, is sufficient evidence 

 that the work is complete. 



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The Sportsman's Sazetiber.— I have been more than 

 pleased with the Gazetteer, and don't know how v, 

 kept house so long without it. 1 am constantly referring to 

 it for information concerning fishes that previously I had 

 to search a whole library for. Very truly yours. 



Feed Mather. 



FIELD SPORTS. 



WHAT is there so fascinating about Field Sports that ils 

 lovers will travel thousands of miles, spend thousands 

 of dollars, endure torrid heat and frigid cold, run risks that 

 seen; almost foolhardy, scale mouutaius, shoot rapids, cross 

 arid deserts, thread trackless forests, and do a thousand other 

 monstrous things to indulge their ruling passion? 



The above question is often asked by those who know not 

 the joys of a sportsman's life and with some shadow of reason, 

 perhaps, when we consider how little is known outside the 

 fraternity of the hidden thrills and nerve stimulating forces 

 bound up in those simple instruments, the rod and gun. 



Man is bom with certain physical and moral attributes and 

 instincts, and the exercise of these is just and right. He lias 

 facial muscles, he cannot laugh without Facial muscles, ergo, 

 it is right for man to laugh. And so on indefinitely, taking up 

 each sense and attribute in order, the same rule will apply. And 

 when we reach his higher and more spiritual nature, we find 

 him still following out his instincts— doing right when he fol- 

 lows them squarely, doing wrong when he flings them aside 

 and becomes bound up in self and worldly gettings. 



When eliildhood and youth arc past, and we look back 

 through the vista of years, and in the joys of retrospection 

 become for the nonce a child again, how sharp the pang when, 

 the bright day-dream over, we find that we are old, our youth 

 and freshness gone, and nothing left but stern reality. Then 

 what would we not give for one hour of that merry, care-free 

 childhood? What w r ould we not give to be as innocent and 

 joyous as in those halcyon days when'we saw but the rose, 

 and had not, as now, discovered the stinging thorn ? 



But " We may be happy yet. " There is a remedy for all 

 this. Every man, who is a man, and appreciates the workings 

 of his better self, has but to follow that instinctive love for 

 nature wdiich is surely in his heart, developed more or less, to 

 find a certain sure relief that will bring him nearer to that 

 childlike innocence and happiness for which he has so often 

 longed. 



These men who spend their time and money so lavishly 

 have found this out. They know they get returns on the in- 

 vestment a "hundred fold. " 



Ask yonder gray-haired veteran busy with leaders and fly 

 books, his face lit up with an enthusiasm almost boyish in its 

 perfect happiness, if it pays him to leave his business in the 

 hands of others for a fom- weeks' sojourn at Rangeley? He 

 will tell you "Aye, a thousand times aye, " and like as not 

 add: "The only time I really live is when lam whipping 

 a trout stream during my vacation. Why, my dear sir. if on 

 some fine June morningl should geta heavy strike, and, realiz- 

 ing the fact, that a six-pound trout was appealing to all my 

 skill as an angler to effect his capture — if at this juncture I 

 should receive a telegram stating that, my warehouse and all its 

 contents had been destroyed by fire, I would respectfully say 

 to the messenger : ' I will see you again, ' and go on and en tch 

 my fish." 



There is something ecstatic in the feel when a trout strikes. 

 It cannot be explained; it is a mystery, a tingling, scintillating, 

 nerve-tensive mystery, and so fascinating that the trout angler 

 looks upon his sport as the height of earthly happiness. And 

 well he may, for when is a man happier than when arrayed in 

 his old clo' and holy fishing boots, with rod in hand sauntering 

 .along some favorite stream? Blue sky, pure air and sparkling 

 w r ater, blessed trio, the angler's beatitudes ; how they build him 

 up and add years to his life! With what a /.est he takes hold 

 of his business when he returns. Problems that once seemed 

 beyond mortal ken to solve are now as clear as noonday. Per- 

 plexing business matters once so intricate as to defy his utmost 

 ability to unravel, now arrange themselves in perfect order 

 In a word, from the listless, morbid being of a month ago, he 

 has been metamorphosed into a stirring, active business man. 



"A fool and his money are soon parted. " So says the "base 

 and soulless worldling, " when he hears of some member of 

 his club paying two hundred and fifty dollars for a new gun. 

 Poor fellow! He has never learned the. rule for computing 

 the profit on an investment of that sort. He knows nothing 

 about the pleasures of the field. He never trudged through the 

 stubble at early dawn and participated in the sport of quail- 

 shooting. He never was startled by the hurtling whirr of the 

 cock grouse as he clears the undergrowth and stretches away, 

 nor felt the grateful tingling of the warm blood coursing through 

 each vein and artery as it leaves the heart, where ■ 

 fined for that single instant when each faculty was intent on 

 covering the bird, when he sees the stream of feathers Hying 

 on the morning air, and hears the resounding thump which 

 announces a dead shot. He never waited for hours secreted 

 in a blind, cold and uncomfortable, his eye roving fri a 

 to horizon and back: to decoys again, until it seemed they'll 

 never come; nor felt the breathless anxiety as a black 

 line; came moving up, up, nearer, nearer, assuming more 

 definite form as it comes rushing on, untiL at lust a great flock 

 of brant are lighting, gabbling and diving among the decoys, 

 and then the culmination of all this in the dou 

 his heavy ducking gun, the result of which pays for the patient 

 waiting ten times over. He never stood at a runway with cocked 

 rifle waiting for the red deer, which is even )'" app 

 as heknows by the deep-mouthed music of theh'»undi 

 certain thai will pass his stand within slid 



bids his heart " be still, " grudging it each pulsation which 

 may tend to swerve his trusty piece, until the otke" 

 ceased to heat through his true aim. Oh no ! He never knew 



the sweets of Field Sports, or he wouldn't bav< 



with his: friend when he paid the (to h ill , pried! 



for a gun. 



Man loses nothing by indulginghis purersportin 

 On the contrary, he is the gainer by it. ; tin 

 clear, vigorous brain and a sound body, at the i 

 moderate outlay of money, a sufficient recompense. Mem 

 physical labor require relaxation, not that rue, 

 duction found at Saratoga or Long Branch, but the aal 

 Gpd-given kind, furnished to man but for the taking, which 

 lurks in stream and forest, among the darting troul 

 denizens. 



Oh! ye who live a pack-horse life, who toil and moil year in 

 and out. who let the seasons slip by unheeded or simply in 

 them in their flight as times when trade or stocks arc bri 

 dull, who never go out and commune with nature, tilling your- 

 selves with that inspiration which comes through pure air and 

 freedom from corroding care, —do you know that you it is, not 

 we who are the wasters of this precious life so kindly gi 

 us ? Do you realize how much of joy youare losing— how you 

 are cutting off your years before their time, 

 your purest, noblest instincts on the altar of your ambitic 

 lust of gain— becoming dull and misanthropic through a mis 

 taken notion that life was made for unremitting toil ? Throw 

 off these foolish prejudices, and in this lovely spring-tin) 

 out beneath the blue canopy of heaven, study nature and s 

 gentle revelations, pointing you to a higher, nobler life. 

 gun and rod along, use them understandingly, andyouwil 

 that God did not make man for the world, hut the woi 

 m«u- II. W. Di: L. 



The Thucsh.— The thrush is scarcely surpassed by any 

 other bird, excepting the nightingale, and pours for 

 full wealth of song in y'-aried form, upheaving his pa 

 breast, and looking out upon the still landscape with bright, 

 restless eyes. We hear him singing in the early rnornin 

 fore the round sun has scaled the hill-tops. He keeps up his 

 music throughout the day and closes at night without any ap- 

 parent fatigue. There is no diminution of sound, no fi 

 ness; he seems more like a good instrument which, after 

 played on for hours, sends forth a sweeter sound; he is no 

 weak traveler who, having gone a long day's journey, drags 

 wearily up the drive at sunset. You cannot fail to distin 

 his voice from among the warblers of the woods ; not that bis 

 notes are always alike, but there is some regular modulation, 

 a natural sweetness, which, however varied, "still does his 

 touch the strain prolong;" and you know it is his oyvn, and 

 could not be deceived even if he had hidden himself in I be 

 carcass of an owl. " I recollect well," says an English 

 " that one of the first birds I reared when a country boy was 

 a thrush, no was the pride and delight of the whole q 

 borhood; even the neighbors forgave him for breaking 

 slumbers so early in the morning for the swei 

 song. An old fisherman who arose,, with flu: break of da . 

 who resided in (he adjoining house, made the opening of his 

 music a clock to get up by, and he never was really dei 

 in time but once, and that was one rarely beautiful moonlight 

 morning which streamed in brilliant beams through tie 

 dow shutters, and lured the lovely bird into the belief that it 

 was day."— Translated Jfam the German. 



Physician's Office Case-Kecokd and Pi;esci:iptio>. I 

 —We are in receipt of a copy of this work at lite hands ol 

 publishers, Kobt. Clark & Co., of Cincinnati, O. It is the 

 most perfect prescription hook and case-record ever published, 

 having duplicates for prescription, and spaces 

 name of patient, address, diagnosis, physique, pulse, ten. 

 ture, respiration, etc:., enabling the practitioner to keep the 

 treatment of his case more clearly in view ; moreover, it is a 

 very convenient and excellent device against errors in writing 

 prescriptions. If physicians once use this work the; 

 never again be without it, Apothecaries should provide them- 

 selves with them, for the benefit of physicians. The 

 firm also issue a multum inparvo pocket edition, combini 

 visiting list, prescription blank book, and case-record, v 

 is simply invaluable. 



In aid of the Chikoii of St. Agnbs.— A series of atl 

 games and other sports will take place Monday, I 



es' Wood, for the benefit of the Church of St, Agnes in 

 E. 48d. st., near Lexington aye, They will mainly consist of 

 walking matches and running matches for young m 

 comic mule race, fat men's foot races, a fat. pig hunt 

 greased pole climbing, and hoys' egg an. I spoon 

 handsome silver cup, a silver medal, made and engravi 

 Tiffany cc Oo.'s, a watch, a gold-headed cane, several p 

 and other handsome pfizes will be put up for theconl 

 Entries to all the races are being made now by Mr, F. \V 

 Whittaker, 350 Fourth Avenue. — ; 

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YOtfse Q.i ml.— On Saturday, July 17, as a I 

 mowing on Mr. Foster's meadows near Wilharusb 

 off the head of a female quail. Hi 

 containing sixteen eggs. These v. 

 chicken and then given to a male California qo 

 since cared for, and brooded them, evince 

 of a parent, ruffling hie 

 to appn 

 dexterity in i 

 so lame as to even ! 

 They maybe seen at Then 

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